Difficulties understanding update paths while understanding code cause developers to waste time and insert bugs. A detailed investigation of these difficulties suggests that a wid...
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...
Pointer analysis is traditionally performed once, early in the compilation process, upon an intermediate representation (IR) with source-code semantics. However, performing pointe...
Bolei Guo, Matthew J. Bridges, Spyridon Triantafyl...
Software debugging is the process of locating and correcting faulty code. Prior techniques to locate faulty code either use program analysis techniques such as backward dynamic pr...
As computer systems continue to become more powerful and comdo programs. High-level abstractions introduced to deal with complexity in large programs, while simplifying human reas...
Kevin J. Hoffman, Patrick Eugster, Suresh Jagannat...